Doll House

I will be blogging about games, animes, mangas, ideas and anything I could think using my creativity!

Author: princessdoll

Before Trivia Event was made:

No one at site…

After the Trivia Event was made:

Anyway, the point is since the Trivia Event started lots of players are playing the game just to participate on the said event!

Reason? Just for fun I guess..

Fame??

Ranking…

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CT (currency in-game)!!!

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Ok fine, you get the point right?

It’s easy to earn CTs at the trivia Event, every successful login on the championship lobby you already won 5k CT.

30K for the 1st placer
20k for the 2nd placer
10k for the 3rd placer

Mechanics? Very simple! Just wait for the time the Trivia Event will start, after that a GM will give a question. The answer to that question will be the password for entering the Room at the Championship lobby and once you’re inside congratulations you have 5k CT!

But that’s not the end of it; you will also prove your driving skills because the Room will start a match which will determine the 3rd to 1st placers.

I really enjoyed this event, lots of players interacting, and talking, and spamming (lol! :P) and trying to show they are fastest to all.

Also answering the question is a bit challenging, though it is easy really you just need to read a bit at their website for the answers or go to some sections in your home area to see it!

I hope I can play with some of my friends, they are a different time zone and I know they are enjoying the Trivia Event at night. (my time to play is by morning.. sad..)

Hope to see and meet some players there! :)
 

I really don’t like horror films/movies or alike. I get really scared and can’t go to sleep afterwards due to the pictures. Even though everybody tells me “It is not real! Asshole!” but still the picture always embeds on my mind making it a lot harder for me to sleep at all!!

So yes, you should have expected that I won’t play “Ju-On: The Grudge!”

For those who don’t know, XSeed made "Ju-On", a game based on the moderately popular horror franchise, "The Grudge." Yes, it features meowing children en masse.

Depending on how you play through this "haunted house simulator," you'll be graded on two meters: Scare Level and Sissy Level. The game will track how quickly you progress through the game, so if you're the type of charging ahead, knocking down Japanese children with ease, your Scare Level will go up and If you're the type of cowering like Sarah Michelle Gellar in the corner then Sissy Level increases.
I laughed so hard when I found out the game will give you a humiliating description of how you played. Here's a sample, quoted directly from the game:

“Your fear level: A total wuss. That's what you are, Zero courage. Zero guts! Why don't you lock yourself in your bedroom and write poetry or something?”

The reason I am writing this article now and sharing this to you all is the package that my uncle (who lives in another country) send to me. I quoted to him “I love games anything new is ok!” and I didn’t expect him to send me a horror type one! The good news is it’s not the game itself that made me scared it’s the BOX!!

I now present to you the box. This is the same box promoting “Ju-On: The grudge”. I don’t want to ask him how the hell he got this and of all the games out there why did he choose this?!

I really like packages, really! It gets me excited to open the box and see what’s inside. But this time is an exception! I won’t and I mean it! No one can dare me to hold that freaking box! And the hair!! Oh my goodness! I don’t care if my Sissy level increase but HELL NO I won’t hold nor open that thing and I’ll just ask my brother to open it up for me.

They say the reason of this is the theme where meowing the child is inside the box. I don’t want any part of him thank you very much. There are limits to my investigation drive.

P.S.
- In case you are wondering, sending packages here in our country takes months before it can reach to me. So yes, I already asked my uncle if the courier didn’t take good care of the package which unlucky for me “they did take good care of it pretty well that the box and style is totally intact!”
 

So yes it’s time to line up the top 10 cosplay look-a-like here in my gallery collection inside my PC! I also wanted to see how far these people go to cosplay. I am a cosplayer too but still lacked in experience if you know what I mean.

So I gathered pictures of cosplayers which really made me amazed! Made me wonder on how they can pull off those clothes or weapons! Because of this feel free to look them up and see if they are fails or thumbs up!!

Let’s start from number 10!

Number 10
Character : Birdy Cephon
Anime : Birdy The Mighty: Decode

Nice right?

I don’t know how that outfit stayed there! O_O And yes the cosplayer above and this one is the same person.

Number 9
Character : Amane Misa
Anime : Deathnote

One of my favorite cosplayers.. Kipi-chan..^^

Number 8:
Character : Rukia
Anime : Bleach

She is known to be a look-a-like of Rukia. For me, she really resembles her in some point I think.

Number 7:
Character : Tsunade
Anime : Naruto

One thing for sure she really is fitted to be a Tsunade cosplayer! Her looks are what I could imagine if Tsunade is a real human.

Number 6:
Character : Sailor Saturn
Anime : Sailor Moon Super S

One of my favorite characters in Sailor Moon. She really done it perfectly. The costume is a bit different than the picture because shw copied the Saturn Version where Saturn just awaken from her slumber.

Number 5:
Character : Fran
Game : Final Fantasy XII

Details of her clothes are awesome if you can she her whole picture!! She should have put padding for her boobs, but aside from that this is one of decent cosplays on Fran.

Number 4:
Character : Ulquiorra
Anime : Bleach

His gaze and angle resembles him to Gaara really. Don’t ask me if this cosplayer is a boy or a girl, still I would label him as boy for now.

Number 3:
Character : Gaara
Anime : Naruto

His gaze and angle resembles him to Gaara really. Don’t ask me if this cosplayer is a boy or a girl, still I would label him as boy for now.

Number 2:
Character : Iori Yagami
Game : King of Fighters

So who would forget one of the popular characters in King of Fighters??

Number 1:
Character : Lavi
Anime : D-Grayman

Yes! His one of the most popular guy cosplayer Kaname! Almost all his cosplays are too good to be true but the good part is I can definitely say YES HE IS A GUY in real life!

And the reason why the clothes are different is because he cosplayed the newest version uniform of Exorcist.. :)

P.S.
-These are just some gathered pictures and collections of awesome cosplayers I have (just the some). If you don’t like them then get out and make your own top 10 list! DX

For now as a special bonus, please enjoy Kaname's cosplays below.. :)

So I was strolling around the city with my car (lol for the word strolling!) When I saw some nice car designs by players inside CTRacers. Let's have a look of some designs I accidentally stumbled and see which car has the best design!

Yep! This is inside the game of CTRacer. I just saw this car by accident as I go in a nearest quest zone. Lucky for this car by GM Crzzzzz is not moving and it's blocking my way so I just screenshot it while I have a chance!

I screenshot it again! I really like white color cars. Even though in real life maintenance is hard which really sucks but its worth it!

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This one is by accident that I stumbled while trying to attempt in doing a quest. But rather do a quest, I just took some screenshot on this lovely car own by NTWarrior.

Animated as it seems but this has a unique color that I doubt most players will use. I even said to myself that "So this is the outcome of brown car, nice!"

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After I followed NTWarrior's car, I was shock to see Krina253's sexy car. As a girl, I really like it a lot not just because of the girl anime design at the side but also the combination of pink and white which blends perfectly!

And yes I asked her to just stay put as I screenshot her car, (but a a-hole bumped my car while I'm attempting to take a picture that really made my angry). She was so nice that she showed me another car of hers! I can't believe how lucky I am today!

Yep it's another pimped car by Krina253. It has the same design but with a different color. All I can say is because of the color it can really stand out in any crowded area of cars.

So on the 4 car designs above, which do you think has the best pimp?? You can start voting!

*Credits to Crzzzzz, NTWarrior and Krina253 for giving me an opportunity to screenshot their cars!

“I played the game for three years now because this is where I found Friends who share the same level of interest as I do. Friends that cannot be seen in-real or at close range like classmates, but friends who can offer a relationship that could stand the test of time.”

This is the exact statement of a student who was scolded by his father after he was caught playing an Online Game during the times he should be in class. Computer addiction could be very alarming as told by the experts in Human Behavior, but have they asked why children of today are pulled into the game?
One of the main advantages of having an Internet Connection is the opportunity to reach out other people, wherever they are or whatever time zone they are in. As long as you are online, the possibilities are endless. An Online Games is one of the possibilities you could think of.

Is it for Companionship?

-In Online Games you can be someone that is really not you. Or you can be popular by showing your true self which the people in your place can’t seem to appreciate. Or you can gain friends, interact with the same level as you are, or be someone who everyone wants to be. Just like coming out of a tight shell, they can have the access to express themselves without worrying if they offended some or break rules because, well it’s just an internet!

Being lonely because you’re a shy or quiet type but once you type something on your keyboard you start talking like it’s not really you? Some can easily express themselves because they know no one will know it’s them. You are just one out of billions of people who is living in this world. Of course you won’t be recognized by anyone that easily, and by expressing yourself freely without boundaries and someone noticed you and accepted you from who you are, you start to feel relief and be thankful that internet work wonders.

 

Is it for Boredom?

-It is obvious right? You don’t have anything to do or you want to try something out. It’s like you can choose if you want to play basketball while the sun is hot and up or you can play fighting games inside your house sitting pretty in your chair and with air con/electric fan to make you feel more comfortable.

Laziness is showing a bit but well it’s your life anyway. You’re just bored to death inside your house and the only thing available to do is play online games. At least you can still interact to some people even if you’re not outside.
 

Is it for refuge?

-We’re going to discuss refuge. The youth of today, without being bias or one-sided is considerably weaker than the earlier generations. They tend to stumble on the lightest of problems, and crippled on the slightest of mistakes. Online games became a staple “point of refuge”. This world is a natural disaster playground. We have typhoons, volcanos, and man-made disasters all year round. An also real life problem occurs too like family problems, financial need or accident issues. Some individuals may lose hope because of this but others divert the fear and condense it to a whole new world found in cyberspace.

“At least there are no disaster occurrences in-game, excluding lags and company issues. All in all it is a safe ground for us, and sometimes we forget even for a brief period of time that some of my family members got killed in an accident.”

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Actually the hardest debate I’ve encountered is with my dad, and it’s not even religion related. The debate is about what is the good thing in wasting money just to play online games. How am I going to explain this to a work-dedicated individual who never experienced playing online games. What’s the purpose of spending thousands of dollars for a simple pixilated thing that you can’t even call your own where as you can already pay the bills with that sum of money. The debate is close to eternal, but I’m sure some will understand because I’m sure only a gamer by passion and heart will understand another gamer. It is the topic that leads into confusion, questioning oneself, and maybe guilt.
Well I guess that makes sense, learn to balance out things and priorities and you’ll never go wrong with your life. And, as I may quote, “there is no greater MMORPG than Life”.
 

So there you are!!! Your an otaku right?? RIGHT???!!! If you really are then you should meet the qualifications needed to be an official Otaku to everone's eye! Yes! That is needed to distinguish the normal to the obsess type!

So a voting system was made in Japan and the TOP 10 LIST on How you can spot an otaku was made! So don't blame me for the list! Blame the people who voted for this! And just look to where you fall in the category.

1. Has an anime T-shirt
2. Has an anime shopping bag
3. He has a waist pouch (”fanny pack” / “bum bag”)
4. He wears a bandanna (hachimaki)
5. His bag is covered in anime badges
6. His hair is excessively long
7. He wears his rucksack over both shoulders
8. He has big, thick glasses
9. He tucks his shirt/T-shirt into his trousers
10. He wears chemical wash jeans

So all in all if you fuse all requirements together your face should be like this:

Some may pierce into your heart and soul but who cares!! Welcome to the club of Otakus!!

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P.S.

I saw this rankings at Kotaku and I laughed hard because I don't really see the point in the rankings.. Anyway.. This lead me to the real poster of the rankings by Sankaku Complex site which also said the original ranking system was made here. So you get the point that I was lead to these sites by accident (Thanks to Kotaku.. T_T)

Let’s go inside the game while I introduce you Luna Online.

My beloved character!

“Luna Online” is a recently localized MMORPG from gPotato (This is the client I am currently playing). The characters and style have much similar to Ragnarok Online, well the beginner’s clothes reminds me of it because of the color. Popular in Asia, this game is more focus on “dating MMO” where you can find a match to your character, have social networks and stuff, make a family then own a farm! (Err.. wait, you will learn how to date and have a family?!o_o)

This is an f2p (free to play) so you don’t have to worry about entrance fee in playing this game. It also has cash shop too for extra accessories and other flashy things that you can live to not having it. So basically yes, seems fine to try the game.

I tried the game, made some quest, a NPC keeps popping every time I need to learn new things, tried the emoticons (it’s fun!^o^), grind a bit, change job, grind again with quest, excited to have wings (I want to fly!) so grind again, after that I rest a bit and talk to strangers, I mean players.
In the end here’s what I think:

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Me want!!! *_*

-I got distracted at the advertisement and pictures Luna Online showed. The picture like a guy pulling a plant in a farm (and the plant has a facial expression!!!) made me wonder what kind of game is this? When someone told me Luna is like a Harvest Moon because you can have a farm and animals and plants I got excited (Ok so I’m being biased on this side because I love Harvest Moon). I also got hype to the concept of “Harvest Moon Online look-a-like? I like!!” But some pictures can be misleading too, like a picture of both girl characters kissing, (I mean it! Both girls kissing!!!) An online game where both genders can kiss?? This IS THE 1ST online game where both characters can kiss and same genders too can do it! So yeah I just warned you on the pictures, you should be at a right age to view it. I am not joking; the pictures and advertisements should have parental guidance because it can mislead players who can view/see these things;

CHARACTERS:

Reminds me of a knight in Ragnarok Online

-It’s a form of chibi so if you don’t like anime type characters this is not the game for you. Your character can form balloon expression, do actions such as dance (I can’t believe they are good dancers!) and most of all they can really do expressions such as sad, happy, angry, confuse depending on what your character is saying. You can choose different hairstyles and faces, it’s a bit simple and there’s not much to choose because it’s only few.

STORY:
-A life between elves and humans. It’s a floating island that was made that way to have a peaceful life because of monsters/dark forces roaming around below. And so on and so on, it’s a fantasy story like Peter Pan. Well, it reminds me really of Peter Pan because the island is floating and the characters are like children. The people that look old are the NPCs. No special attraction on the story really, just a normal fantasy-adventure type story.

GRAPHICS:
-The graphics is nice. The details of the characters are not beautiful but cute. Too cute that it really reminds you of Ragnarok Online just imagine it in 3D. It’s not that heavy on your PC and the colors are so light like a cotton candy type. It is eye-catchy due to cuteness but not beautiful to the point that you will be amaze. Overall of the graphics is fairly nice and cute.

SOUNDS AND MUSIC:
-The background music is nice and refreshing BUT the character’s voices are terrible. For the first time this is the only online game that I can’t appreciate the character’s voices and skill music. I don’t know if my ears have a problem but really it’s horrible. Whoever made the sound of characters and skill effect music please change it because I would rather play Luna when my sounds are off.

QUEST SYSTEM:
- The typical one. Watch me do it. Talk to the NPC over there, heads to get quests, and then turn them to get your reward to the NPC here. It’s like; go kill X monsters, go speak to Y NPC, now return to Z NPC to get that. One thing that can make you hold on in this kind of quest is the Map System displayed when you open the world map. The map shows the location of NPCs, they blink if you can have a quest or turn in a quest. So it’s not hassle to find the NPCs.

USER INTERFACE:
-It’s quite easy and nice. The layout from mini-map, health bar, action buttons, etc. was very well made. They don’t fill-up the screen and yet all the information you need is clearly provided.

CRAFTING:
-You don’t have to do a quest in order to learn crafting. Your character (before you can even made one) already knows how to craft! It’s up to you to gather the materials needed. Also, the material needed appears in the crafting window whatever you put there. So it won’t lead you to trash items that you don’t need and you will know what loots can be thrown, craft or stored.

DATING SYSTEM:

They don’t like each other I think..

One lucky guy! xD

-One of the unique things about this game is the dating system. It has a match maker program which matches you with someone inside the game depending on your likes and dislikes! It’s up to you if you want to try it, my character don’t have a partner so far because I don’t want to. Anyway, once you found a partner you can kiss each other, date, or do the next big thing, that’s to have a family! (Honestly parental guidance is necessary for the young ones. Geesh…) Once you have a family it has a family role concept too. It is compose of a father, a mother, and so on.

FARMING SYSTEM:
-The farming system! At last! Or is it awwww…. Bad News is you can only have a Farm if you have a family (it’s so unfair! What if my character wants to be single?!). It has a required level before you can buy a land, requires money to buy it, requires points to have and requires maintenance tax. Yes! Too many requirements! It shows that owning a farm you must be responsible. It also wakes us up in reality that owning your own land you must pay for a tax or you can say farewell to your loving farm. The good side about that is you can take care of plants, animals, even go fishing and all your hard efforts will be rewarded by using/trading the harvest things in the future of your character.

GAMEPLAY:
-To start, you have to choose between two races available: Humans or Elves. The differences between the two are minor; only slight variations in stats which can be overcome by equipment later on. After that you have three classes to choose from: Mage, Rouge and Fighter. The classes are pretty much what you'd expect from other MMORPGs in terms of playing style.

Once you made a character, it’s time to login inside the game. It is your 1st time right? So your character’s name will be announced at the whole server as they welcome you from joining them. Really this method is a bit old but still effective. Some players will welcome you through the shout chat. So if you just want to play the game without someone noticing you or you are hiding to some of your friends then don’t even bother. They will know you are playing it because of the announcement. You’re already busted!
Three classes may not seem like much, but at various points as you level up you'll be able to specialize into a subclass within one of the three core classes. Unlike most other games, you're able to switch between subclasses regardless of your previous choice; giving you a lot of freedom when deciding what you want to do, and a lot of variation should you get bored with just whacking things.

You can have small wings by finishing a required quest and must be in a required level. It’s a bit entertaining for the point because you are excited to have wings so you won’t mind grinding for now. After that there is also a required level of a fully grown wings (yes the big ones) but that’s so high you won’t except to level that fast right? Just finish some quest for now and grind again.

The sense of humor the monsters has makes me laugh sometimes! As I was about to kill a blue poring look-a-like (name: slime) I was surprised to find out that it can speak! Well, you can’t have a conversation with it, but, it is a bit entertaining! Slimes talk about how soft the grass is; turtles comment about how they are faster than Michael Phelps, and the list goes on! In fact, every monster, animal, or person that one can beat up has their own comments to make, and all of them are really funny and entertaining!

MY COMMENT:
-I got disappointed on the farming system due to I don’t want to have a family but I want to have a farm. But the rest are ok I really enjoyed the “emoticons” they are cute expressions your character makes depending on what your character is saying like the picture below;

Ok forget about the picture.. =_=

One that irritates me is the grinding here but as long as I know I have something to do then it keeps me entertained a bit.

As promise I will make a full review of this game. I will be you tour guide so that you can have an idea of this game!

NOTE: This is my full review of CTRacers. All comments and things that I use/said are mine alone.

CTRacer Online developed by Mobil Planet and was published by Gamenetworks, is one of the newest casual racing games ever for global market. CT Racer Online is an online racing game that will surely create a breed of racing fans among gamers of all ages. The game features an extensive list of unique racing cars which players can customize its appearance as well as modify its performance; colorful cars with different characteristics; and fun, challenging race tracks where players can master and compete with other drivers in every lap after lap.

This is also an f2p game so no payment requirement! The shops are composed of both in-game money called CTs and cash items. More CT items are offered than Cash items, and cash items are only for customization of car’s appearance and not the tune-ups itself so you can live without worrying of buying a cash item, still a fair play.

So yeah! I tried the game again, done some easy quest routes; the records are a bit realistic and breakable if you know about upgrades of cars and stuff. Talked to some players (they are all friendly) so nice environment, the sceneries/buildings are nice (it made me think to the point that I wish our country has those kinds of sceneries where it is clean and beautiful. The map is big so it’s really a free roaming around with your car. In the end I got addicted (again).

Here is my complete review:

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-The cars at the advertisement are nice. At first I thought those are the cars you can have but unfortunately you will need cash items to design your cars and turned it to this;

                                                    Me drools.. *_*

Yep, the output is the same but the designs; well you need cash for those signs and color customization and other stuff for car appearance. Like I said you can still be the faster beast car without flashy car appearance if you don’t want to spend money.

CHARACTERS:
-Of course your character is not a human being nor an elf but a car! You can’t see the person driving inside. (It was made that way for you to focus on the car itself) Your car is your character, the clothes are dumper and body kits of your car, the potions are the gas stations scattered around the map and the upgrades are the engines and tune ups you can do at your garage area.

STORY:
-No story. I mean it! No story on this one. Well, because it’s a racing game and not a RPG type. You just login the game buy your 1st primary car then choose a map to roam around then off you go and run like a wind!

GRAPHICS:
-The graphics is great! A bit improvement was made, now you can choose between low or medium graphics. The low one of course your car will look like a pixel type boxes a bit. The medium one the effects gotten smoother, so nice that you would want wipe the dirt at your car. (Just kidding)

SOUNDS AND MUSIC:

-Nice background. It’s like you are really racing! The good thing is you can customize the mp3 inside the game so that you can add-on songs that you want to hear. It’s like an mp3 inside a real car. Either you want to hear default songs or your favorite songs stored inside your computer.

MAPS:

-It’s a free roaming area really. It’s like a real map in a MMO game where your character can move and you can see co-players roaming too. You can bump their cars to ask duel (it’s like intimidating your opponent I think) and the sceneries are nice! It really looks like a city at night with neon lights and the most amazing part are the buildings and structures. Most are based on Korea Map so their famous building, surroundings and structures can be seen there.

QUEST SYSTEM:
-Located at different sections inside the map. You can choose three quests there your choice. (a)Course records; where you must go to an specific location within a specific time, (b)Road Runner; where you must finish 5 destination points w/out hunters seeing you, (c)Road Hunter; where you hunt the road runners! (I really like to be the hunter; I enjoy busting road runners around!)

USER INTERFACE:
-It’s a bit complicated. You have to look for a guide and be used to it in order for you understand the things to do. The good thing is the keyboard button commands can be custom. Either you can race using your keyboard or using a joystick or a wheel.

GUILD SYSTEM:
-You know, like a car gang or so. Yep, you can make guilds there then lead your guild to victory. Own a territory or beat other guilds. You will earn fame points and honor too! The emblem of your guild will be seen like a sticker at your car. This reminds me of Initial D.

GAMEPLAY:

-Let’s start your engines and be ready to roam around the city! As you login the game, you will first see your garage area where you can choose between automatic or manual transmission, view details of your car, your car list and other personal information.

But first, you have to buy a car of course! You can’t roam around the city without a car so off you go at the car mall area to buy cars. There are lots to choose from with different designs, colors and stats. Yes! Cars have stats and you can improve the stats more by tuning, putting engines, turbo, breaks and other stuffs you need for your car. After you bought your new sweet primary car (Of course it’s just a beginner car for now) you can start roaming around the city!

Every time you login inside the map your car will be at any point locations. This is random so every time you login your car can be in a different place/location. At first if you’re a newbie this is a bit confusing, because you don’t know what to do inside the game, there are no pop out instructions as to what you will do or so. It is best to read guides at their site or forums first before login in the game.

After reading guides or asking players out there (because they are friendly) you can choose what to do, either do quest to earn CT (currency inside the game) to buy new car that is much faster, or get tune ups or engines. This time you need to grind a bit. Mileage is recorded and you will be rewarded every time you reach a specific mileage. The faster your car is the more record breaker you can do and you can ask duel race to co-players too. Regarding trading, all transactions can only be done at the lobby area not inside the map so better go there first for transfer money or other stuff.

Lots of activities are done in a specific time and date. It is advisable to join on these events to gain more CTs easily. Doing quest also helps by gaining TP (Tech points) which is important because some parts inside your car requires TP. The higher the parts can give to your car stats the higher the TP needed.

After that, you can just roam around again, play with the race tracks either downhill or uphill. All race tracks are based in Japan’s mountain passes. Really, it reminds me of Initial D due to the mountain passes they choose. Myogi is a popular beginner mountain track to practice and unlocking the other passes needs required points to do so.

MY COMMENT:
-My first comment is I got lost first because after I login inside the game there are no tutorial as to what to do next. I would really appreciate an instructor NPC or so inside the game to make it a bit newbie friendly because most players don’t visit forums. They just Download the game, register and off you go playing it! But because the GMs are nice and players are accommodating that made my racing experience change a bit. They guided a newbie like me 1st in anything inside the game making it a good community. So yeah if you’re a type of player who can try racing games I would recommend this to you. If you’re a racing gamer fanatic then try this game!

Whether you believe me or not I love playing racing games too. Mostly I’ve been playing Grand Turismo, Crash Bandicot etc. since high school so yeah I love race challenges. This year I tried an online game called CTRacer, it is a racing game the difference is it’s an online game.

"This is just a quick brief of CTRacer. I tried so many games these past weeks or so with different genres."

QUICK BRIEF OF WHAT IS CTRACER:

-"It’s an online racing game with a map to explore. Just imagine a RPG game where your character is not a being but a car, where your healing pots are not potions but gas stations, where your items/accessories are not clothes but engines/body kits/etc and where your map is a giant city with routes and highways to go. And yes just like an RPG you can take quest/mission either race with someone, destination points, hunt “speeding cars”(LOL) or challenge your co-racers (like a pvp equivalent). What I like in this game most (that made me try it) are the mountain courses that can make you remember “Initial D” (if you heard that). The mountain passes are all the same even the names are the same so yes I am a big fan of Takumi and I want to do the drifting just like he does on thoses mountain passes!"

ANYWAY BACK TO THE IMPRESSION:

-So I found out about CTRacer from an internet (thanks to surfing) and it has cool graphics so far. I started playing this game at OBT of CTRacer, play the courses, done some quest and missions then logout. The reason for logging out? Well, to be honest it has lots of hackers and I mean it! The records are like “WTF?! Is that even possible only 19 seconds to reach the goal??!!”

Just like me lots of racing fans got disappointed because of cheaters roaming around. We all know hackers are everywhere in any online games but the thing is the hackers at CTRacer are too obvious that you will end up cursing for playing fair but can’t have a fair players. There’s an old saying “If you can’t beat them, join them” along the line so now almost everyone (but not all) are hackers!! That time I expect the game will not last long and I was right! Later September only few are playing the game. The effects of hackers/cheaters really helped a lot in worsening the situation. It’s like a ghost town and I would love to draw ghost at the city roaming around to make it a realistic ghost city. The game did not meet the “fair play” that most players want making it a big EPIC FAIL in any racing online games.

So the GMs come up with a bright idea (sarcasm) and that is to reset the game AGAIN. This time they will be putting a hack preventing tool (Wow! You just thought about that now?) so hackers or 3rd party tools cannot get inside the game. They also made an event called “Ask the GM event” to drag the players to play the game, just ask the GMs anything like CT (currency in CTRacer), Mileage and stuffs. Just like the event title implies, you can ask anything and the GM will give it to you! (Except the Tech points which is equivalent to stat points of the car) This event lasted up to the day before the reset and after that all will start from scratch.

From what the announcement made by CTRacers, the Reset Date is October 6, 2009 (which is yesterday) and they will use HackShield services. I don’t know the difference of HackShield to GameGuard aside from the price but I hope it can wash away not all (because that’s impossible) but most hackers in-game.

I’ll try to play this game again and make a full review out of it maybe next-next week or so. For the meantime best of luck for me!!

NOTE: These are just my thoughts regarding this game, if you don’t agree that’s not my concern any more.

FIRST GLANCE: LUNA ONLINE

NOTE: This is just a quick glance of Luna Online. Next time I’ll be doing the full review of it with screenshots.

I got curious on the “farming system” like you can have a farm???Like harvest moon????It really made me wonder ended up downloading the game and because it's p2p I don't have to worry about fees for now. Well I love to play harvest moon because you must take care of your farm, plants, animals and stuff. So Luna Online made me think on how would the farming system goes in an online game.

After the download, I done some registration and stuff then started playing the game. Well, this is the 1st online game that I played were they announce your name throughout the whole server like “WTH?!I’m already busted? lol”

QUICK REVIEW:

-You can choose which race you want, a human or an elf. Regarding their appearances as expected Elves have bigger pointed ears while human is well human of course! You must also choose a job between the three available classes; Fighter, Mage and Rogue.

I decided to go with the mage thing because I want a healer type and mage is the closest job for it. After fixing my character’s name (like forever) I entered the game, play a bit, kill a (WTH? Is this a poring??) poring-look-a-like, done some quest and stuff (too many quest) then logout.

My 1st impression after playing the game in my 1st 5hours?? Well, the truth is I haven’t found out about the farming system. I want to ask around but the players are too busy to grind that you can’t talk to most of them. I found out I was in the area where newbies are so maybe the pro players are staying at a different town. If that’s the case then I need to login again next time to find out where it is.

Yep there are a lot of grinding here and the quest are piling up. I am not the type of person who wants to see quest notification at my window screen when I’m playing so I always finish the quest! The thing for now that keeps me playing this game is the emoticons, every time you say something like “hahaha” your character smiles. If you say “what is that?” your character’s expression becomes like thinking. Made me wonder what other emotions the character can do.

I wanted to find out about the following things you can do at Luna Online so I made a list before playing it and these are the result;

-Players can form Families and purchase farm to cultivate it.
(I still don’t know how so will play later to know)
- Dating System that would match your profile with other players in the game.
(date??you mean date?????? no idea)
- Auto looting after mobs kill
(yes! It’s fun when no one can grab your loots)
- Plenty of skills and quests
(sooooo many quest…)
- Aside from armor, you can also wear costumes.
(the chicken costume I found was nice..=_=)
- Transcend to over 40+ Jobs Classes with various combinations.
(too many jobs to choose!!)
- Fishing System
(don’t know yet)
- Craft System
(I tried it and the good thing is you don’t have to get the skill. It’s already a skill of your character)

I know there are guides lying around at the internet but I intend not to look at them (specially the farming system) because I want to be surprise on how can my character obtain it and if it has plants, animals etc. that you need to take care of.

This is all for now. My full review will be coming next week. I’m going to play this game for a while and find some friends, parties, explore the map more and add some stuffs. My client is gpotato by the way.

If anyone wants to try this I'm just lying around there wearing a chicken costume.

Do you want to shine? Or do you want your name/IGN be at the top where everyone knows you? Are any “signs” calling you that it’s your turn to have the glory?? These wacky tips will guide you as to how will you become famous in an gaming industry.

NOTE: The following suggestions below are just my comments. Don’t be serious about it and use your brains before doing these things or even commenting at this article.

1. FIRST LAUNCH OF GAME EQUALS PRESENT!

–Try to be present every 1st launching of any games. This will let you feel “me first!!” in any games. I don’t know if anyone will recognize you but either way the achievement of being 1st to touch or do something in-game is a really nice feeling for you alone. Just don’t forget to use the same IGN in all games so someone WILL notice you’re existence.

2. MAKING REVIEWS

– positive or negative feedbacks. Reviews will always be a review. Lots of players (loyalist or not) will be commenting you’re reviews weather you like or not. Like the old saying; “Bad publicity is still publicity” this always implies.

3. SUMMON AN ANTI-GAME ACTIVIST

– Yep. Just say the magic word and your name will appear in any blogs, plurk, facebook and if you’re lucky enough to summon a big one (popular) you might be put on TV! Just don’t forget to watch out, maybe your summoned being is already watching you in advance.

4. VIOLENCE IS NICE

– Become a popular player by hacking, stealing loots, scamming or even killing the noobs. You either be targeted by angry players or be banned by the game. But still, your name will be popular from being a notorious gamer and that will gain you a name for sure.

5. BE CREATIVE! USE YOUR IMAGINATION SKILLS

– Applying your skills such as making photos, cosplaying, doing fan-arts, drawing, make a flash game dedicated in the game or even sell some merchandise such as t-shirts, dolls and so. Addict gamers will surely be happy to look at your works, especially that only you have done that and no one else.

6. TOP RECORD

– the basic thing that everyone wants. To be the best player on any games you play. By doing this you have to set outstanding and unbeatable records that will make your co-players say either “you’re awesome!!” or “you’re a cheater!!

7. HOT CHICKS ARE WELCOME

– Ok, I won’t explain this any further. Hot chicks playing the game equals more attention to men.